Doonan Quotes & Sayings

Dressing down is a crime against humanity. — Simon Doonan

An exaggerated sense of occasion, or any sense of occasion, for that matter, will automatically impede your ability to have fun. Conversely, a well-cultivated obliviousness to the conventions of any occasion is guaranteed to up the fun quotient. When people ask me, "What are you wearing to [such and such event]? I'm not sure what to wear...," I experience a strong desire to kill them. These whiny people, with their obsolete sense of appropriateness, are the Antichrist. — Simon Doonan

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics — Simon Doonan

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score. — Simon Doonan

I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy. — Simon Doonan

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy? — Simon Doonan

The charming shall inherit the Earth. — Simon Doonan

The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' — Simon Doonan

Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors? — Simon Doonan

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt

Conformity is the only real fashion crime — Simon Doonan

Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them. — Simon Doonan

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. — Maya Angelou

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part
with an air of amused recklessness
is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people. — Simon Doonan

Architects are the new comedians. — Simon Doonan

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"-deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible. — Simon Doonan

My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur. — Robert M. Price

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind. — Rajneesh

Gay men are French women...with penises. — Simon Doonan

Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children. — Simon Doonan

Apply extreme caution when wearing red in the workplace. Even a simple demure red outfit -- a cashmere twinset -- can turn you into the office lightning rod. If you are crafty, you can use this to your advantage. To gain the upper hand in an upcoming negotiation, try wearing a flaming red silk blouse and painting your nails red. — Simon Doonan

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling. — Seth Godin

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash. — Simon Doonan

That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing. — Susan Beth Pfeffer